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Do you think there is a trend in this country for intelligent people to stop reading the biased reporting coming from these elites. When you turn off 50% of the country with your drivel, what are the chances this is the cause of the collapse of most liberal media forms including newspapers, networks and periodicals. I have a masters degree in business and economics. I have stopped reading and watching all of it - how can you trust to be true anything containing misleading info positioned as fact or truth? I note this week that NYT missed its earnings estimate - maybe they should try to recruit that 50% back rather than arguing they don't have a bias.

To me the question is not whether or not charge, but how. Would I buy a subscription? No. Would I pay nickel to read past the first paragraph? yes, over and over again.

It's way past time for some major content creators to get together on a standard for micro-payments with a large enough potential user base to take hold and proliferate, perhaps with some input from the IETF, W3C, and the Treasury Dept.

I would browse the mag rack at the bookstore every Sunday for about 20 minutes, buying only one. The cost increase (retail over subscrip) was worth it to be able to pick from any one of them. Then Borders closed, LOL.

content is free! it's being generated all the time. What the man said earlier was true: if it's good, then it will survive. Who is he talking about that has been funding the falsely-free internet? Everyone pays for access, then the content has been created organically. Just like the music industry, the news industry is late in changing, and now angry.

For years I read both Newsweek and TIme faithfully. I drifted away a few years ago. Both magazines are so insubstantial now that they really don't justify a 5 dollar price. A couple of years back Newsweek had a design overhaul and all the changes were a step backwards. It became cheaper looking and it became hard to distinguish editorial from advertising. Newsweek didn't die it committed suicide.

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